Madelvic Car Factory  -  Granton

Stirling Motor Company

1902 - 1905

A Stirling Motor Company bus, built at Granton and operating in the Orkney Islands

A Stirling bus,  built at the former Madelvic Car Factory, Granton, 1902-05, and delivered to Orkney

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Robert Grieves Collection and to Argyll Publishing

 

Stirling Motor Company

Stirling Motor Company used the Madelvic Motors car factory at Granton.

Stirling used the Madelvic factory to build their lorries and buses after buying Kingsburgh Motor Co, the then occupants of the factory, in 1902.

This buses above were photographed after being delivered to Perth, Western Australia.

This bus above has been photographed at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands.

Here are more vehicles built by Stirling Motor Company at Granton between 1902 and 1905:

Stirling buses,  built at the former Madelvic Car Factory, Granton, 1902-05, and delivered to Perth, Western Australia ©    Stirling Lorries,  built at the former Madelvic Car Factory, Granton, 1902-05 ©

Acknowledgements

1. Stranger on the Shore  [James Gracie].  Argyll Publishing, 2003.

 2.  Wikipedia web site    3. Granton History Group web site

 

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